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...malcontents is unanswered. The Democratic leaders are not great enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
...Gerald Thom' a youth who is having his expenses paid through college by some unknown benefactor and who has not sufficient money to mingle with the more aristocratic students, was received with special disfavor. Coins were added to the missles thrown and jingled on the stage to the intense delight of the student body present...
...little girl. One leg was shorter than the other. One hip was dislocated, had been so from her birth. The doctor was going to help her. He was going to make her like other little girls, whose rompings she had so envied. So she looked up at her benefactor, hopefully, trustfully...
...Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved. Books of tickets, each worth five or ten pfennigs, are available to generous citizens at the City Hall. Upon being accosted, instead of handing the ragged one money, so often misgiven to impostors, the benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute are thus succored. Charlatans tear up the tickets in disgust, soon quit their game...
Friends of Andersen have alleged that on at least one occasion his wit came to the rescue of his timidity where royalty was concerned. Frederik VII, grandson of Andersen's original benefactor, Frederik VI, challenged the aged fabulist to a drinking bout. He accepted, but bribed a royal servitor to fill the silver cup passed to him with water. Some hours later, Frederik, by then in no mood to be trifled with, detected the fraud. '"Cheat! Will you pledge your King in water...